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TIL over 10% of people have had sex at work.

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OG814 TIL former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim's voice was used to record the longest audio greeting to extraterrestrials on the Voyager Spacecraft; approx. 7 years after the spacecraft was launched, Waldheim was publicly accused of participating in war crimes by famed "Nazi Hunter" Eli Rosenbaum
6EaOm TIL that New Zealand is not (officially) part of any continent. It is, however, a part of Zealandia, a mostly submerged continental shelf that many consider to be the eighth continent.
4X75X TIL In New Mexico, at a quarter-mile section of Route 66, the rumble strips have been engineered to sound like the song “America the Beautiful” if you drive exactly at 45 mph over them
rRgOo TIL in exchange for appearing in a mobile phone ad, legendary German footballer Franz Beckenbauer requested the novelty number 0176 / 666666. He was then flooded with erroneous phone sex calls by confused callers, since "six" and "sex" are pronounced almost the same in German.
a89wJ TIL Post Malone had 3 separate songs certified diamond on 4/20/23 and also has more diamond certified songs than any artist in history